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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on January 06, 2017, 09:34:46 AM
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arenean (276 posts)
Guardian: Liberals risk becoming a permanent minority in America
From The Guardian:
What will liberalism do in the new, terrifying world the 2016 election has inaugurated? More than any other presidential election in a century, its outcome turned not on issues but on resentment and alienation. It was a vote in which anger overrode optimism, a corrosive sense of failure overrode hope and in which the very impracticality of a Donald Trump presidency proved one of his strongest drawing cards. He would not improve politics, his core supporters told interviewers. He would blow it up.
Liberals have urgent work to do to block the most reckless, punitive efforts of a Trump presidency. But liberalism must also come to terms with the fact that the base on which it has rested since the 1940s in this election fell almost completely apart. The effectiveness of the Republican party’s Southern Strategy of the late 1960s in peeling off southern white Americans was the beginning of the New Deal coalition’s breakup.
The desertion of the northern, white working class in the 2016 election, should it persist, would leave liberalism without a viable electoral base. Unless the Trump victory literally splits apart the Republican party, liberalism threatens to become a permanent minority of the educated, the bi-coastal, the urban, the nonwhite, and the poor. Despite changing demographics, national elections cannot be won on that basis alone.
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/03/liberals-risk-becoming-permanent-minority-america
And now for the reality base community's inability to deal with reality:
Star Member ucrdem (11,033 posts)
1. Normalizing election fraud, just like the rest of them.
No mention of the fact that Trump didn't actually win, either. Thanks Guardian.
Wabbajack_ (946 posts)
17. Even with the voter suppression
She should have won by 20 damn points against the most hated man in America, and she would at least have WON if had she had run a good race, which she DID NOT. Pretending she did won't help us win the next one.
Demsrule86 (8,353 posts)
18. Not true...
This election was stolen...and it won't matter what we believe if we don't stop the GOP...I don't care about liberal or centrist labels...we all have to band together and fight the conservatives who are winning by the way because they stick together...Trump is not popular with the GOP either...but they voted for him in numbers that kept the election close thus allowing them to steal it. And I will say this...the primary hurt Clinton...had Bernie not run or at least gotten out and endorsed way earlier...Clinton would have won.
delisen (32 posts)
3. The electoral college win was based on roughly 100,000 votes. Hardly the death of liberalism-
especially when we have voter suppression, fake news, a politicized FBI, and a poker-playing strongman in Russia acting to topple democracy here and abroad, Eight years of letting Republicans score over 1000 political seats hasn't helped, and could have been prevented.
JFK wrote "Why England Slept" explaining British failure to pay attention before World War II was upon them. One day someone will write "Why Democrats Slept" to explain the events of leading up to the forces of darkness scoring the Oval Office--but we need to get to work now.
SFnomad (2,317 posts)
4. So liberalism is dead (or on its way)
In the last election ...
When we win the popular vote of the Presidential Election by nearly 3 million.
When we gain seats in the House.
When we gain seats in the Senate.
Yeah, sure sounds like liberalism is on its last legs. :)
Lesson to be learned. You cannot make people see when they willingly blind themselves.
Only one here seemed to get it.
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Move left and more arrogant dems.
It is a sure winner!
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He would not improve politics, his core supporters told interviewers. He would blow it up.
Stupid. He's going to improve politics BY BLOWING IT UP.
SFnomad (2,317 posts)
4. So liberalism is dead (or on its way)
In the last election ...
When we win the popular vote of the Presidential Election by nearly 3 million.
By way of three counties in California
When we gain seats in the House.
In favorable districts against idiot Republicans, mostly RINO's
When we gain seats in the Senate.
You were supposed to flip it, easily.
Yeah, sure sounds like liberalism is on its last legs. :)
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Liberalism is already a permanent minority in America. What we are seeing coming out of the left these days is not liberalism but the beginnings of a form of full on fascism.
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The desertion of the northern, white working class in the 2016 election, should it persist, would leave liberalism without a viable electoral base.
The left doesn't get it. There is not an endless supply of money. They can't keep promising more free shit while doing everything they can to drive jobs out of the country. Most people want to work and not subsist on welfare.
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I thought along the lines of that article in 2003 and 2004. I underestimated the Rs' skill and alacrity for shooting off their own feet, at the knees.
Libs' and Progs' persistent denial, penchant for demonizing those who disagree with them, and love of loony-toony conspiracy theories bodes well if the Rs can just keep their "guns"* pointed outward.
* Note for any DU-Onlurkers, that's what's called a metaphor.
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(https://armedlaughing.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/whistling_pastthegraveyard_300x295.jpg?w=750)
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anger overrode optimism
I'd say Make America Great Again is an optimistic campaign theme.
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What happens when the first two SCOTUS nominations of the Trump era come out solidly FOR voter ID? THEN the liberals will be a solid minority, and will also never win a popular vote again.
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He would not improve politics, his core supporters told interviewers. He would blow it up.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Digging out of the rubble will suck lots of ass. But that rotting corpse had to go, regardless of how familiar it had become.
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What happens when the first two SCOTUS nominations of the Trump era come out solidly FOR voter ID (AND a purple finger)? THEN the liberals will be a solid minority, and will also never win a popular vote again.
The Iraqis have a good idea there.
I should also add, ANY illegal caught voting in an election gets an automatic 10 (or other number) years in prison followed by immediate deportation.
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I'd say Make America Great Again is an optimistic campaign theme.
I was going to say, what part of "Make America great again don't they understand? Is it too many words for them?
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Wabbajack_ (946 posts)
17. Even with the voter suppression
She should have won by 20 damn points against the most hated man in America, and she would at least have WON if had she had run a good race, which she DID NOT. Pretending she did won't help us win the next one.
Only 20 points?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrNggFlmm8[/youtube]
Suck it, DUmmies.
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I'd say Make America Great Again is an optimistic campaign theme.
You have to understand that in Guardian-speak, "optimism" = hope and change, and they still actually believe that nonsense.
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Sorry Guardian, there are no more liberals on the left. The left is in the USA what it has always been in the rest of the world, fascism.
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I was going to say, what part of "Make America great again don't they understand? Is it too many words for them?
They think the last 8 years were the greatest ever. That's the problem.